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Juan Manuel Lebrón: a versatile Puerto Rican artist

Music accompanies him from a very young age

Juan Manuel Lebrón is a very complete artist who has ventured into different areas of the entertainment industry, from music to comedy, Mr. Lebrón has put his name on it. Born on April 22, 1947 on the island of Puerto Rico, he has worked from a very young age on the stage when he became the singer of the Sexteto Rítmico group. But Juanma’s career, as he is affectionately known, is the perfect example of self-improvement that other artists can look up to when necessary.

Juan Manuel Lebron
Lebron is a complete artist

He recorded his first full album with the Orquesta Sensacional, which was his next step in the industry. His career took off when he participated in the OTI Song Festival, being the first salsa singer to represent Puerto Rico in this prestigious festival. Here he performed the song “Represento” which was originally by singer-songwriter Lou Briel. OTI allowed Juanma to have international recognition and the unconditional support of the late and talented cantaora Lola Flores who always praised Juan Manuel.

Currently he already has nine complete productions, his first success that conquered the radio of Puerto Rico was “Amores Sin Sentido” released in 1982. Later one of his greatest prides was to make a bolero album, in 1999 where the song “Una obra de amor” which is dedicated to all children struggling with HIV positive.

Acting and comedy are other of his passions

But beyond music Juanma has also stood out at the acting level, especially in television comedies, and if you ask any actor they will say that comedy is much more difficult than drama. Among Juan Manuel’s most famous productions we find “Musicomedia”, “Salsa con chispa” and “En casa de Juanma y Wiwi”; the latter was on the air for 14 consecutive years. He also dabbled in the host part with shows like the game one  “Atrévete”

Many records and songs
Who does not know Juan Manuel Lebron?

Apart from this great repertoire as a singer, actor and entertainer, Juanma has excelled in other facets as a music producer, composer, librettist, model and brand image. In fact, even he has ventured into the theatrical world by writing and starring in the play “Cosas de papi y mami”. He has also been a radio producer with his own shows.

There are many recognitions that Juan Manuel Lebrón has obtained in his long career as a public figure, these have not only been to recognize his work as a singer and actor, but also to recognize the great contribution he has made to Puerto Rico. Among them are:

  • Comedian of the year in 1978.
  • One of the “Ten Most Outstanding Young People in Puerto Rico” in 1980.
  • “Represento” awarded him a platinum record and the Buho de Oro given by Panama in 1986.
  • In 1991 he was nominated for Premios Lo Nuestro for the song “Ella y Tú” in the category Tropical Singer (Salsa).
  • In 1992 he was the official entertainer chosen by Telemundo for the Great Celebrations of the Fifth Centennial of America.
  • That same year he was awarded the honor of representing his island at the Puerto Rico Pavilion in Seville, Spain.
  • He won the Paoli Award in 1993 for Tropical Genre Singer of the Year.
  • In 1999 he received the Don Quixote award thanks to his long career as a comedian.
A Puerto Rican Artist
A talented and very versatile Puerto Rican artist.

In these modern times Juanma remains active in the music industry. There are several singles and albums that he has compiled in recent years. We hope that soon he brings us a new production, and the successes continue for this talented and very versatile Puerto Rican artist.

 

Jonathan Moly starts 2021 singing to his exes

“No Volveré” is the name of his new single

Jonathan Moly released the single “No Volveré”, a song with which he takes advantage of singing to his ex to the rhythm of salsa. This song is produced by Sergio Ramos, who also participates in the writing of the lyrics together with Rafael Salcedo, Ernesto Suarez, Aníbal Morín, and Jonathan Moly himself. The official video was released through the Venezuelan’s YouTube channel and already has almost 250,000 views.

The new of Jonathan Moly
This year starts with a lot of work

The lyrics of the song talk about those failed loves, where even though there is still love there is no way to get back together, since their time has come and gone:

“Quisiera estar a tu lado, pero las cosas han cambiado

Esa historia baby ya es pasado

Cuantas veces lo intentamos, y ha quedado demostrado

Que lo nuestro nunca ha funcionado

Tú quieres volver, pero esta vez, no voy a perder el tiempo

Discúlpame, si te falle, ya pasó nuestro momento”

Jonathan himself has reiterated several times that the song is perfect to dedicate to exes, he highlights it in the comments that can be found in the official video on the YouTube platform: “Did you already dedicate it to your exes? ? ”. Many of them are about ex stories that Moly’s fans have shared, several have been answered by the artist, especially the weirdest and most interesting stories.

The artist in his salsa facet!
His style has conquered more than one

On January 19, Jonathan shared through his channel a tutorial video to play “No Volveré” on the guitar, one of the many ways in which he loves to be in constant communication with his fans. As part of the promotion for this single, he decided to give a new image to his account on Instagram where so far only 13 posts can be seen, most of them around the single and are from this year.

The two most interesting are where he asks his fans if you can be friends with an ex or if they would return with their exes, that way he increased the excitement for his new single so that there would be debate in the comments. Another great surprise for this single was the series of Lives that he shared through Instagram with his exes, where he thanked each one of them for the experiences that led him to be the man he is today.

Jonathan has taken advantage of these months of quarantine to continue doing what he enjoys the most: music, in addition to spending time with his family as can be seen in several vlogs where he shows things from his routines and days passed in 2020. In fact, the video clip of “No Volveré” was recorded in Colombia in January of last year, here it shows a story with an ex, along with scenes of him accompanied by beautiful dancers, one of the hallmarks of Moly’s videos.

Like many artists, Jonathan looks forward to the time where it will be safe for everyone, and to meet his fans again on stage. That way he can sing his latest singles live, but feeling the warmth provided by his fans, he really wishes that in 2021 we can win the battle against this terrible virus.

Knowing a little more about Jonathan

Jonathan Moly is a Venezuelan with art and stages in his blood, his parents are former Miss Venezuela Inés María Calero and the renowned singer, songwriter and producer Miguel Moly. He was born in Caracas on July 13, 1993, from a very young age he has been close to music thanks to his father, so much so that at the age of 4 he recorded and sang a song with him that became a success in Venezuela, even appearing in recognized programs like Sabado Sensacional.

Jonathan with his mother Inés María Calero
His mother, Inés María Calero

His growth in music continued in a professional way, when his paternal grandfather Jesús Moly gave him his first piano, where he carried out his studies of music and the instrument itself. At the age of 10 he continues with his studies in music, but complementing with acting, which he is very fond of. Then at age 11 he began his studies in guitar, which would be his favorite instrument to compose his own songs.

When he was 13 years old he began to record his first studio project under the production of his father, in 2007 he released his first single called “Mi Mejor Amiga” which became a hit on Venezuelan radio, and even managed to cross borders. He manages to perform in various parts of the Caribbean country with this song, which leads him to meet the manager of the most popular youth salsa group in Venezuela “Salserín” where artists such as Servando and Florentino have also been.

Memories with Salserín
His time in the youth group, Salserín

Salserín became Jonathan’s musical school, not only as an artist but also in the salsa and merengue genre, which despite being overshadowed in the Latin region by the urban one, has managed to remain among the new generations thanks to groups like this and artists like Jonathan. His stay in Salserín was from 2008 to 2010, with which he recorded several hits and also allowed him to have his first appearance on television with the miniseries “Robando Corazones” that was very successful in the region.

Upon leaving the group with honor and beautiful memories, Jonathan decides to continue with his solo projects, after the experience gained during those years he begins to embrace more genres such as pop and ballad. In fact it is this mixture that forms his personal stamp, salsa and merengue will always be his flag but he likes to mix it with pop or ballads, in fact he calls it pop salsa. “A mi manera” was the single that he released after Salserín which was distributed by BREÑA SOL from Spain throughout Venezuela, demonstrating everything he can offer in the tropical genre.

2012 was the year of Jonathan’s internationalization by moving and settling in Miami, from there only good things began to arrive for Moly, releasing many more singles and studio productions. In 2013 he sang a duet with the salsa singer Luis Enrique of the famous theme “Yo no se Mañana” during the Chica HTV ceremony in Colombia, which places his name on social networks due to the excellent presentation given by both.

With Luis Enrique in Colombia
Next to Luis Enrique in Colombia

To this day, Jonathan maintains that charisma and simplicity that have always accompanied him, and maintaining constant communication with his fans. We wish this talented Venezuelan artist many more successes, not only in the artistic part but also in the personal one with his wife and their little son, may more good things come.

 

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Anacaona The Cuban Female Orchestra

It was founded on February 19th, 1932 by Concepción Castro Zaldarriaga and her sisters, being the first son female Sextet and expanded to the jazz band and typical charanga format in 1934 and projected onto the world from the famous “Aires libres of the Hotel Saratoga” at the Prado of Havana.

These talented women toured the entire length of America from north to south, the Caribbean and France between the 1940s and 1960s.

In Mexico, one of the most visited countries by the Orchestra at this stage, their images and sounds were recorded in some Mexican films, such as: “La noche es nuestra”, “No niego mi pasado” and “Mujeres de teatro” that they alternated with film and music artists from that country. At the same time, they recorded for the record label RCA Victor.

Anacaona The Cuban Female Orchestra It was founded on February 19th, 1932 by Concepción Castro Zaldarriaga and her sisters
Anacaona The Cuban Female Orchestra

THE AGUIRRE

 Sisters Georgia and Dora Aguirre, who have a strong background playing contrabass and saxophone and were new graduates from the “Amadeo Roldan” Conservatory, joined the Anacaona Orchestra with its founders from the 1983 under the direction of Alicia Castro, with whom they learned the most genuine genres of Cuban popular music, rigor and discipline in this profession.

3rd GENERATION

 With the Castro sisters’ retirement in December 1987, Georgia Aguirre asumed the direction of the orchestra and continued the work of its founders with her sister and other young women graduates in music schools, consolidating a style that combines tradition with modernity in order to preserve and enlarge the history of Anacaona.

Sisters Georgia and Dora Aguirre, with a solid musical training in the specialties of double bass and saxophone, recently graduated from the "Amadeo Roldán" Conservatory of Music.
Anacaona La Orquesta Femenina de CUBA Between the 1940s and 1960s, these talented women toured all of North and South America, the Caribbean and France.

TOURS

At international level, they have traveled to more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, America and the Caribbean to perform at important festivals and multiple scenarios including: The 34-city tour in China; their participation in the theater play “The Tropical Bourgeois” under the direction of Gerome Sabarí and inspired by Moliere’s classic, “Le bourgeois gentilhomme”; the tour round some US cities in which they also had an emotional meeting with Graciela Pérez, singer and founder of Anacaona and the show “Sabor de la Habana” that opened the season of Cuban shows at the Cabaret of the Grand Casino Monte Carlo from the Principality of Monaco and other important jazz and summer festivals in Spain, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Holland, Canada, Jamaica, Aruba, Curaçao, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, Peru, Honduras, Venezuela, Mexico, among others.

TRAYECTORY

The orchestra has also participated in several films such as “La Bella de la Alhambra” by director Enrique Pineda Barnett, “Vidas Paralelas” by Pastor Vega, the Cuban-Swiss co-production, “Barrio Negro”, as well as the documentaries “La ruta del ritmo” by director Harry Belafonte, “Anacaona, 70 Años después” by director Jorge Aguirre and produced by Cuban Television, and the documentary “El mundo cantan el mundo baila” about the history of Cuban music produced by NHK from Japan.

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 In recent years, they have recorded 8 albums with the labels PM Record, LUSAFRICA, BISMUSIC and COLIBRI and have been invited to productions from other labels such as DISMEDI-Spain in Volume ll of “Cuba le canta a Serrat” and with the English producer Kenny Young to perform two classic theme songs of Anglo-Saxon music set to Cuban rhythms.

Anacaona The Cuban Female Orchestra
Anacaona The Cuban Female Orchestra

In Cuba, it performs in popular dance music main stages, cultural events, national tours, festivals and Cuban radio and television programmes with a great gathering and the public and critical acceptance.

At present, it is integrated by 14 women who cultivate Cuban popular music, merging the most traditional rhythms with a contemporary sonorite. The musicians, also known as “Las Mulatísimas del Sabor”, have achieved a seal that distinguishes them and are appreciated by critics and dancers from all over Cuba and other countries.

ANACAONA, with more than 85 years of uninterrupted work, is among the top-level groups of Cuban popular music and considered “The Distinguised Cuban Female Orchestra”.

 

RAIDER  TECHNICAL

– YAMAHA or Peavy Drum

(’10, ’12, ’14, ’22) with stool.

-Timbal LP (’14 and ’15) with stand.

-LP Congas (’12 and ’13) with stand.

-Bongó LP with stand.

-ROLAND RD 700 or ROLAND RD 500 piano with stand.

-Korg Trinity keyboard.

-Baby Bass, AMPEG or similar with stand.

-Peavy, Tracy Elliot bass amp, or similar for Baby 400w (minimum) Bass and Electric Bass.

-Digital mixing console with 32 channels for living room with splitter and connectors (Yamaha).

-MCL7, CL5, LS9, Soundcraf Expression Si3 or similar).

-7 Music stands.

MICROPHONICS

-1 Shure Beta 52 AKG 112 (Bass Drum)

-6 Shure SM 57 or similar (Brass)

-8 Senheiser 421 or SM 98 H or similar (Percussion)

-3 Condenser SM 81 (Over)

-6 Shure SM 58 or SM 87 (Vocals)

-6 Direct Box (Piano, Bass, Keyboard, Tres)

Each microphone with its stand and corresponding lines.

MONITORING

-1 Mixing console with 32 reference channels with 8 sends and splitter.

-5 floor monitors for vocals.

-2 Brass monitors.

-1 Tres and guitar monitor.

-1 Piano monitor.

-2 Drum monitors.

-1 Drum Field.

* Kilos of Power and Monitoring will be adjustable according to the to the conditions of the place, depending on whether they are indoor or outdoor stages.

ANACAONA THE CUBAN FEMALE ORCHESTRA

Director: Georgia Aguirre

Email: [email protected]

FB/Orchestra Anacaona II

Recruitment agency: Artex’s Clave Cubana

Email: [email protected]

Manager: Leonardo Sintes

Email: [email protected]

FB/Orquesta Anacaona II

Cell phone number: 5 35 289 82 26

Email: [email protected]

ANACAONA, with more than 85 years of uninterrupted work, is one of the first level groups of Cuban popular music and is considered "The Insigne Female Orchestra of Cuba".
“Las Mulatísimas del Sabor”

” Vuelve Conmigo ” with the Dominican singer Enyel Co.

Did you know that the popular, traditional or folk musical manifestations in Dominican Republic came up thanks to Spanish and African music with regards to the rhythmic, tonal and harmonic aspects many years ago? They are interpreted with bass drum, guitar and accordion, like mangulina (dance similar to a popular rhythm of merengue, or rather traditional from Perico Ripiao very danced in the 80s) and pambiche (it is a type of merengue, but at the same time is not because the instruments gather another rhythm in the case of tambora, pandero, accordion and the ensemble itself) with the great strength of the Negroid people, who are considered the ancestor of the rhythms of Merengue and Kopa(a style of music from Haiti, popularized since the mid-1950s. Some authors consider that the konpa is an evolution of the meringue, a rhythm danced and sung in Haiti since the end of the 19th century; Apart from Haiti, the konpa dirèk is present in the French Antilles, Martinique and Guadeloupe) and in front of the island of Dominican Republic (The Carabine.) However, in the 21st century, popular music residing in the Dominican Republic are: Balada, Bachata, Rap, Dewbow and Rock.

Right now, we have been informed that Dominican singer Enyel Co, produced his new proposal of tropical salsa titled “Vuelve Conmigo”; under the production of maestro Noe Cid.

Enyel Co - Vuelve Conmigo
Enyel Co y su nuevo tema Vuelve Conmigo

This singer has extensive experience in various musical genres; he is currently betting on salsa and presenting a fresh release, appropriate for new trends in the music industry and his young audience.

Enyel Co is a Dominican artist of the salsa tropical genre, he was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Through his journey across the musical world, has gone through several musical genres, while consolidating his musical career in Salsa from the year 2019 with his single Vuelve Conmigo, which gain notoriety abroad.

The Enyel Co project begins in 2000, when he participated with the Puerto Rican salsa group called Selección Perfecta, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA, for a short time. Since that time, he was left with a taste for tropical salsa and, over time, he maintained his desire to develop his musical project. In 2018, producer Francisco Mota, was who encouraged him to make his first studio recording, being his first step towards the development of his dream project.

He had also accompanied musical groups such as “Chiquito Team Band”, among others. He is currently working on his second single, which will be released soon so that his salsa audience can enjoy it, being something new from a new talent in the musical world.

The single “Vuelve Conmigo” is available on all digital platforms, so you can listen to it and download it through:   and you can also listen to it through this link, which is mentioned there as a salsa beautiful song in which he demonstrates all his talent and follows in the footsteps of the great salsa masters under the label Tumbao Media Productions.

For more information about Dominican artist “Enyel Co”:

Phone: +1 809-328-2124

Facebook: @ EnyelCo https://www.facebook.com/EnyelCo/

 

 

Bella Martínez presents “Las memorias de Jimmie Morales: un conguero para la historia”

North America /  Puerto Rico

Bella Martínez “Salsa has always been important to the writer”

Bella Martínez is an author born in Puerto Rico, who defines herself as a funny but complicated person, like life itself. But she has always carried in her veins her passion for salsa, and music that makes her dance and express herself, which is not surprising as she is from this caribbean island. What was not expected of her was that she would present us with a book about the memories of a great percussionist like Jimmie Morales, who is one of her great friends.

Apparently the idea of ​​making this book belonged to Bella herself, who once told Jimmie to tell her what he considered important in his life, for her to write his memoirs. Despite Bella’s great love for salsa, it is rare to see instrumentalists being the star in productions or projects, but here the Puerto Rican author dared to tell the life and professional career of whom is considered one of the best percussionists of the genre, that has belonged to great bands and has accompanied great names.

Bella Martínez wrote a book about Jimmie Morales
Un conguero para la historia, by Bella Martínez

Just as it’s stated in the book’s sinopsis:

“When all the congueros imitated the king of heavy hands, Ray Barreto, Jimmie managed -without intending to- be the one chosen by maestro Willie Rosario to accompany the afinque that Rosario had already established with the conga … Jimmie paid the luck that accompanied him at that crucial moment with an immense dose of vocation. And that stroke of luck in the leather failed to erase the humility of his being.”

That is why this book has become of vital importance for all those followers of salsa or merengue, genres that despite their importance for Latin music no longer have so many representatives in the new generations, and are being eclipsed by the new trends in the urban genre. It is the big names who continue to leave their mark and write the history of tropical music.

Celebrating the book
Bella Martínez and Jimmie Morales

Bella Martínez: Who is Jimmie Morales?

Jimmie Morales is considered one of the most influential percussionists and conga players of the genre in the last 30 years. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut from Puerto Rican parents, Jimmie grew up with the influence of American music but in 1967 his parents returned to the island which led Morales to encounter the popular music of the Caribbean: salsa.

It was his father who gave him the first conga drum, which fascinated him from the first moment he had it and this fascination was his impulse to pursue his studies of it. This also allowed him to learn more about Cuban, Puerto Rican and New York salsa, along with the great congueros, including what would be his favorite: Ray Barreto. At the time he began to participate in bands on the island and accompanied Tito Allen.

Jimmie Morales performing
Decades of successes that you need to know

But it was not until 1978 when his great moment arrived, when he was part of the band of the renowned Willie Rosario, in which he was for 8 years and that formed him in the professional part of music, not only with conga but in the production and recording of the different projects. This band led him to build a solid career as a studio musician, participating in the productions of artists such as: Oscar D’León, Lalo Rodríguez, Eddie Santiago and Frankie Ruiz.

In 1986 he decided to follow the young Gilberto Santa Rosa, whom he met in Willie’s band, and who would become one of the most prolific salsa soloists of the last 25 years. This stage was the launch of a successful career that would lead him to perform on different continents and share the stage with artists such as: Willie Colón, Ismael Miranda, Tito Nieves, Juan Luis Guerra, Grupo Niche and Jerry Rivera. If you want to know more about Jimmie, just open the book “Las memorias de Jimmie Morales: un conguero para la historia” and look at his anecdotes.

 

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